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Universities by Recent Research Citedness in Sierra Leone

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's mean citedness for works published in the last two years. Recent citation rates vary by field and are not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 mean citations per work6 entries🇸🇱 See all of this country’s rankings →
1
Njala University1,825 works
2.75
2
University of Sierra Leone2,523 works
1.72
3
University of Makeni273 works
1.54
4
University of Management and Technology95 works
1.39
5
Eastern Technical University of Sierra Leone208 works
0.75
6
Freetown Polytechnic31 works
0.63

Highlights

Within Sierra Leone, Njala University ranks first in 2026 with 2.75, followed by University of Sierra Leone (1.72) and University of Makeni (1.54).

Njala University is 1.6 times higher than University of Sierra Leone, the runner-up.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness, 2026. Unit: mean citations per work.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Recent citedness · CC0 1.0 (OpenAlex) · fetched Oct 17, 2026 — OpenAlex indexes scholarly works and citations. Coverage and citation practices vary by institution and field; this is a research measure, not a ranking of teaching quality.